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TWH are shown with elevator bits?? As for the zip tie, why in the blue blazes h*ll... As someone above said, all for a gait. I don't get it, which is why I'll never be in the big ribbons, I can't do stuff like this to any animal....

Can't make sense of a purpose for that?
Some kid of strange way to tie the tongue back, to keep it from sticking out?
How did they keep the horse from slinging it's head, making faces and acting like there was something strange there?
Maybe that is why they checked it and found that?

Have you guys never used a lip chain which would be more appropriately called a gum chain to get a horse to stand for a medical procedure or the like? This would work the same without necessitating someone holding the shank. It's purpose is obvious. It's ethics in this case is non existent.

Have you guys never used a lip chain which would be more appropriately called a gum chain to get a horse to stand for a medical procedure or the like? This would work the same without necessitating someone holding the shank. It's purpose is obvious. It's ethics in this case is non existent.

No, I have never used or seen used what you are talking about. So the purpose of the black band/zip tie is to get the horse to stand still? I know absolutely nothing about this particular riding discipline.

There's a LONG thread going on the subject of soring but this kind of stood out for me and I wanted to get some input from folks as to what it was and, perhaps, if there was a legitimate reason for using it. I've seen lip/gum chains used. I've used a twitch (but this didn't really seem much like a twitch to me). I'm not familiar enough with the nerve anatomy of the horse's head to know just what this might do. Thank you to those who filled in some of those "blanks."

It's my hope that the whole Big Lick thing goes the way of the DoDo bird, but I kind of doubt that it will. Cheaters exist in all equine disciplines. We might not get them all, be ought to get those that we can.